After Oslo we left for Sweden. On the way to Göteborg we stopped in two small villages on the western coast of Sweden: Fjallbacka and Smögen. During the summer they are popular holiday destinations for the Swedes, but when we were there, they were a bit deserted:
That evening we arrived after dark in Göteborg. We weren't really in the mood for another city and decided to take the first boat at dawn to Frederikshavn, Denmark. But we couldn't leave Göteborg without seeing something of the city, so we made a little party in the hostel and after several drinks we left for the city center with a big group from the hostel. I can't remember much of Göteborg, but one thing was sure, it was extremely difficult the next morning to wake up for our boat which would depart at 08:00.
Luckily we could sleep a bit on the boat (although there were a few old noisy Swedish guys drinking their ass off with "cheap" Danish alcohol and on the other side a small kid crying, I slept like a baby).
After reaching Frederikshavn, we drove to Skagen, the most northern part of Denmark where the North Sea and Baltic Sea meet each other:
Here is a photo of the back of the Volvo: two backpacks, some food and a cool box (handy for taking perishable food from one to the other hostel):
Now that we had seen the most northern part of Denmark, we left for the most beautiful beach of Denmark: Tornby beach. At Tornby beach it's allowed to drive with your car on the sand. That looked like a really good idea and we started to have some fun, a bit of drifting and things like that. At some point we decided to stop and enjoy the view. But what we didn't see was that we stopped exactly on a patch of soft sand:
It took us and some locals almost two hours to get the car out.. Here is the shot we were trying to make:
That day, Aarhus (a small student city with a really good nightlife) was our final stop in this incredible road trip. Great weather, breathtaking landscapes, hiking between reindeer, eating snow on the top of a mountain in the summer, making an oatmeal breakfast at a glacial river in a national park, skinny dipping in a lake, drinking a 10 Euro beer with local Norwegians, meeting an old backpack friend, relaxing in an actual Swedish sauna, partying with crazy Danish people, steeling a bike and returning it and last but not least, doing all of this with one of my best friends!
It was simply amazing and I know for sure: this wasn't my last road- or backpack trip!
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